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Ebola case highlights work of NYC disease sleuths 11/01/2014 10:34am • COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's disease detectives were off and running the moment the call came in from a doctor who suspected he had Ebola.As hazmat-suited emergency teams were preparing to transport Dr. Craig Spencer to Bellevue Hospital, health workers were talking Slow-motion disaster: Key facts about Hawaii lava 11/01/2014 06:36am • JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) -- Lava that has entered a rural Hawaii town has been described as a disaster in slow motion. After months of creeping through uninhabited areas of the Big Island, it reached Pahoa this week, crossing a residential street, burning down a garden Ashes from Ebola victim's apartment in limbo 11/01/2014 05:48am • JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press It took a crew 38 hours to clear out the Dallas apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan was staying before he was diagnosed Sept. 30 with Ebola. Hazmat suit-clad workers piled shoes, carpets, mattresses, bed sheets, clothes and kids' backpacks into 140 55-gallon drums. O Liberia opens 1 of largest Ebola treatment centers 11/01/2014 05:48am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Remembering those who have died in the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak, Liberia's president opened one of the country's largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the disease is finally on the decline in this Judge rejects attempt to isolate nurse 11/01/2014 01:10am • ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press FORT KENT, Maine (AP) -- A Maine judge gave nurse Kaci Hickox the OK to go wherever she pleases, handing state officials a defeat Friday in the nation's biggest court case yet over how to balance personal liberty, public safety and fear of Ebola.Judge Charles C. LaV Mayo scores 25, Bucks beat Sixers 93-81 11/01/2014 12:39am • GENARO C. ARMAS AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The sellout crowd gave star rookie Jabari Parker the biggest pregame cheers. Veteran guard O.J. Mayo ended up having the biggest night.Under new ownership, the new-look Milwaukee Bucks got off to a good start in coach Jason Kidd's sideline debut at Wilson's presence still felt by resurgent Bills 11/01/2014 12:02am • JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Reminded of the "RCW" patch Bills players are wearing on their jerseys, Fred Jackson looked to the heavens and wondered if the team's late owner might be pulling a few strings.Something certainly seems to be up in Buffalo.Though the veteran run Brittany Maynard: New face of right-to-die 10/31/2014 06:12pm • SHARON COHEN AP National Writer Saturday was supposed to be the day that Brittany Maynard killed herself. She still might do it, but her latest message seems to suggest she intends to live, at least for a while.Regardless, this 29-year-old woman suffering from terminal brain cancer has shared her jo Women ask FDA to provide options to treat low libido 10/31/2014 05:30pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. - Under intense pressure, the Food and Drug Administration opened its doors this week to hear directly from patients, providers and advocates on what many call an unmet medical need for women: sexual dysfunction. There are currently 24 FDA approved drugs on the market for male se Ebola quarantines: Can states do that? 10/31/2014 04:20pm • NANCY BENAC Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The quarantine of a nurse in Maine who recently returned from the Ebola hot zone in West Africa has touched off a battle between the authority of states to confine people to protect public health and the right of Americans to move about freely.Kaci Hic News Guide: A look at latest Ebola developments 10/31/2014 04:00pm • The Associated Press No African countries are on the United Nations list of contributors to fight Ebola. With few exceptions, African governments and institutions are offering only marginal support as the continent faces its most deadly threat in years. Pledges to deploy 2,000 African health worker Theater shooting suspect wants sanity exam tossed 10/31/2014 03:40pm • CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -- Defense attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shooting want a judge to toss out the most recent report on his sanity.In a motion filed Thursday, attorneys for James Holmes asked the judge to strike the exam from evidence or limit testimony from the doctor Tiny Harris defends implants to change eye color 10/31/2014 03:28pm • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Reality TV star Tameka "Tiny" Harris, the wife of rapper T.I., has the attention of skeptical eye doctors and social media haters over a procedure she underwent to permanently lighten the color of her eyes.Harris, once a member of the '90s R&B group Xs US ambassador says she's monitoring for Ebola 10/31/2014 03:00pm • CARA ANNA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador who just returned from the three West African countries worst hit by Ebola said Friday she's self-monitoring for the virus like anyone else.Samantha Power, the envoy to the United Nations, has been openly critical of the quarantin Terminally ill woman may postpone taking her life 10/31/2014 12:32pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A terminally ill woman who expects to take her own life under Oregon's assisted-suicide law says she is feeling well enough to possibly postpone the day she had planned to die.Brittany Maynard said in early October she expected to kill herself No